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Gallup City, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Conrad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59425. The Survey maps it on the Gallup City quadrangle.

Gallup City within Pondera County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Gallup City between 2017 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
14 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land OfficePENDROY
11 August 2018Natural10 acresCentral Land Officenot named
11 August 2018Natural10 acresCentral Land Officenot named
30 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral Land Officenot named
6 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acrePondera Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pondera County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gallup City: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed LocationBarium-BariteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pondera County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Erickson (historical)1.8 miles11
Midway Colony6.5 miles7
Conrad10.3 miles8
New Miami Colony11.2 miles12
Manson11.4 miles11
Midway (historical)12.3 miles7
Williams12.5 miles12
Brady15.0 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122597435The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 771689. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.